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Five Things You Should Know About Working in the VFX Industry
The visual effects industry can be a challenging and meticulous field to get into. While there are many twists and turns in every career,...
A Visit to Montreal’s Magic Shop: L’Atelier Animation
***This article originally appeared in the December '20 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 305)***
About six years ago, Montreal's L'Atelier Animation studio was formed as...
Anamon Studios Serves Up ‘Let’s Eat’ Animated Short Film Using AWS
More than 150 Artists Realize a 6.5-Minute Story with Remote Collaboration
Centering on the relationship of a Chinese immigrant, Lina, and her American daughter,...
Sept. Tech Reviews: Razer Blade 15 Studio Edition, Foundry Flix 6.3 & Silhouette Paint for Nuke
Razer Blade 15 Studio Edition
Of all of the newer laptop/mobile workstations that have recently come out with the latest RTX card, the Razer Blade...
Director Hisko Hulsing Discusses the Cutting-Edge Hybrid Animation of Amazon’s ‘Undone’
For many years, Dutch animator and rotoscope expert Hisko Hulsing has been a familiar figure in the festival circuit around the world. Best known...
Pollution Evolution: Pascal Schelbli’s SIGGRAPH-Winning Short ‘The Beauty’
At the close of July, the SIGGRAPH 2020 Computer Animation Festival revealed the winning short films which will be offered to audiences around the...
Ringling Grad Jeremy Schaefer Opens Up ‘The Box Assassin’
Ringling College of Art and Design graduate Jeremy Schaefer’s action-packed new short The Box Assassin centers on an unassuming pizza delivery guy who unwittingly...
A Love Letter to Our Planet: ‘Here We Are’ Debuts Friday on Apple TV+
Irish children’s author and illustrator Oliver Jeffers’ 2017 book Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth is the kind of charmingly illustrated...
Acclaimed Short ‘The Wheel Turns’ Debuts Online
Korean animation director Kim Sang-joon’s The Wheel Turns is available today to view online. The short, which won the Best Short Film prize at...
‘Ne Zha’: Creating China’s Charming Demon Boy
***This article originally ran in the January ‘20 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 296)***
In a year full of the usual animated sequels — talking...
Angels and Daemons: Russell Dodgson Reveals the VFX of ‘His Dark Materials’
***This article originally ran in the January ‘20 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 296)***
Back in 2007, the dense, richly imagined world of author Philip...
Artifex Scares Up 200 Shots (and 10K Scorpions) for Nick’s ‘Are You Afraid of the Dark’
Vancouver’s Artifex Studios provided over two hundred sophisticated visual effects shots for the reboot of fondly-remembered frightener Are You Afraid of the Dark, which...
‘Hors Piste’: That Irresistible Alpine Humor
***This article originally appeared in the December ‘19 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 295)***
It has been quite a year for France’s École des Nouvelles...
Nelvana’s ‘Most Magnificent Thing’ Promotes Positive Values
A few years ago, former president of Canadian animation studio Nelvana Scott Dyer and creative producer Pamela Slavin contacted Arna Selznick (The Care Bears...
Talking 20 Years of Toonz Media Group with CEO P. Jayakumar
It was about 20 years ago when Toonz Media Group opened its first studio in Kerala, India. Back then, there were only a few commercial animation...
From Rockers to Walkers: Secrets of New V-Ray for Houdini from Ingenuity Studios
Chaos Group has released V-Ray for Houdini, a production-proven renderer built for high-end VFX and animation projects. Artists can now assemble their scenes in...
Top 10 Tech Tools @ SIGGRAPH
Centered around the theme of “Thrive,” the 46th edition of SIGGRAPH is right around the corner, featuring the latest innovations in computer graphics and...
The Mane Event: ‘The Lion King’ Takes Pride in Virtual Production
***This article originally appeared in the August ‘19 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 292)***
One of the more surreal moments experienced by animation supervisor Andy...
Fox Renderfarm Backs Ambitious CG Fanimation ‘Dragon Ball Z Legacy’
A group of international CG artists and super Dragon Ball fans are teaming up to create a 3D reimagining of the iconic action-anime in...
10 Questions for Locksmith Animation’s Sarah Smith & Julie Lockhart
This month, we had a chance to chat with Sarah Smith and Julie Lockhart, founders of London-based Locksmith Animation, which specializes in making CG-animated...
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